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  • do or die
    do or die

    At this point, in trying to get any kind of a "win" the Republican "leadership"  Trump, Pence, O'Connell along with the ole Tea baggers like Rand Paul.....are pretty busy at work.   Belittling, t

  • Mark F
    Mark F

    "I worked 4 months in New York (medicine hat)  in a lab (strip club) and we were forbidden to share anything to media (hookers)and weren't allowed to speak with non-family  (johns)  about the  sc

  • HardCoreBlue
    HardCoreBlue

    Unfortunate about the suicide. We do though need a lot more of this declining hush money to expose bad behaviours. Makes no difference to me who these people who do bad things support politi

comment_486795
1 hour ago, Colin Unger said:

I believe that simply jogging people’s memory that Trump was just as vigorous a birther on Ted Cruz says all we need to know about whether birtherism is racially motivated.

the thing you need to realize is that "Cruz" is not really a white guy name.  There lots of racism in America directed at people with the name "Cruz."  You may have heard about the ICE raids and the border wall...

Yes, I know that Ted Cruz is a mongrel of Irish, Italian, Cuban, and Carribean descent, and he was born in Canada.  "Mexican name and not born in the USA" is something that resonates with the Trump base regardless of the details, and I very much doubt that Trump would've worked the birther angle against a candidate named Ted Crews.

 

    comment_486798
    1 minute ago, johnzo said:

    the thing you need to realize is that "Cruz" is not really a white guy name.  There lots of racism in America directed at people with the name "Cruz."  You may have heard about the ICE raids and the border wall...

    Yes, I know that Ted Cruz is a mongrel of Irish, Italian, Cuban, and Carribean descent, and he was born in Canada.  "Mexican name and not born in the USA" is something that resonates with the Trump base regardless of the details, and I very much doubt that Trump would've worked the birther angle against a candidate named Ted Crews.

     

    Trump questioned whether or not he qualified to be President because he was born in Canada, which is obviously quite different from suggesting that Obama was lying about where he was born, saying that he was born in Kenya. (Because he's black and should never have been voted president)

     

    No one has questioned where Cruz was born just whether or not it makes him ineligible to hold the office of President. 

     

    Trying to compare the two is ridiculous alt-right stuff. 

    comment_486805
    6 minutes ago, do or die said:

    Trump:  Republicans are ready to deal, we need to go big!
    Mitch:    https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/521225-mcconnell-shoots-down-18-trillion-coronavirus-deal-breaking-with-trump

     

     

    I can't wait for Trump on Hannity after the election, attacking the GOP, blaming them for his defeat. 

    Hannity won't know what to do with both his parents fighting, having to choose who to live with after the divorce. 

    comment_486809
    4 minutes ago, Mark F said:

     

     

    https://www.thedailyliberator.com/top-ten-ways-to-talk-to-a-progressive/

     

    other great stuff there

     

    ” market alternative to the FDA”

     

    coming soon to a corporate wet dream world near you.

    Hilarious that conservatives think they are based on rationality. The reality is thst modern conservativism (excepting the evangelical part) is based on pure unadulterated greed

    comment_486810
    1 minute ago, 17to85 said:

    Hilarious that conservatives think they are based on rationality. The reality is thst modern conservativism (excepting the evangelical part) is based on pure unadulterated greed

    In a lot of cases......including the evangelical part.

    At any rate, someone has seen the light...
    https://thehill.com/homenews/news/521232-billy-grahams-granddaughter-urges-evangelicals-not-to-support-trump

    Edited by do or die

    comment_486812
    1 hour ago, johnzo said:

    the thing you need to realize is that "Cruz" is not really a white guy name.  There lots of racism in America directed at people with the name "Cruz."  You may have heard about the ICE raids and the border wall...

    Yes, I know that Ted Cruz is a mongrel of Irish, Italian, Cuban, and Carribean descent, and he was born in Canada.  "Mexican name and not born in the USA" is something that resonates with the Trump base regardless of the details, and I very much doubt that Trump would've worked the birther angle against a candidate named Ted Crews.

     

    He would work the birther angle against any competitor who wasn't born in Canada. He hit every competitor that opposed him with as much furocity that he could regardless of if their name was Bush or Cruz. 

    comment_486819
    22 minutes ago, Colin Unger said:

    IMO they should get rid of the birther rule. You can be the governor of California and be born in Austria. But you can't be born outside of America and be president. 

    Just to be clear, it was not about whether he was allowed to be president, it was that he was a black-muslim plant from Kenya. 

     

    You would need a constitutional amendment to do it. I don't think that there are enough votes to get anything like that passed. I also don't think that there is enough political desire. 

     

    But, I agree. let the voters decide who they want as President. 

    comment_486825

    "Lies travel six times faster than the truth." 

    There is truth to this.

    I thought this was the best place to post this article. It is trumps mantra of "fake news", his use of lies and distortions of reality and has been used mostly for politicalization and division. 

     

    Solid read about an actual study from MIT on fake news.

     

    here is a link to the actual study :

    https://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6380/1146

    https://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6380/1146

     

     

    comment_486827
    1 minute ago, wanna-b-fanboy said:

    "Lies travel six times faster than the truth." 

    There is truth to this.

    I thought this was the best place to post this article. It is trumps mantra of "fake news", his use of lies and distortions of reality and has been used mostly for politicalization and division. 

     

    Solid read about an actual study from MIT on fake news.

     

    here is a link to the actual study :

    https://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6380/1146

    https://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6380/1146

     

     

    Joseph Goebbels had figured that out, with the use of radio, quite a while ago....

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